This year...
- LeftCoaster

You will see my friend . It is like they are your children less the dirty diapers and when you get tired you say see you next week

Canucks add four new faces this week. The times they are a changin .


Goldoblin now has his work visa ans is with the team today

Canucks add four new faces this week. The times they are a changin .


Goldoblin now has his work visa ans is with the team today
- VANTEL

I can totally see him scoring a hatty tonight.

I can totally see him scoring a hatty tonight.
- Scooby_Doo

Future HHOF

Det get a point and Leafs losing . Best night ever
- VANTEL

Karaoke is a combination of people who shouldn't sing or drink

I hope Canucks select Rasanen with a second round pick.


I am all for mentorship with the right price and the right guys. A guy like Jagr costs 4 mil and still puts up decent numbers .

Sedins cost more than three times that and it is now come to the point where their line mate has to play twice as hard to help with their mistakes.

They are all about comfort now and not about winning. As a person with two and a half years left before retiring I know all about that. I neither would change my job this late in my career.

It is fine to let them play out the contract no reason to ever go past next year.

Tanev is a good solid Dman that does not generate hits or points but is super reliable. We have Edler no need for both.

Bo has played under the Twins and Burrows for three year and by the time they retire he will take over with the start of his fifth year and have the help of Sutter . This is what we planned for, now time to execute .
- VANTEL

You're "boy" is ranked 57 in NA. Maybe if Columbus is giving Van their second.

Jagr is also 10 years old and has been taking short term contracts for years. Sedin's are really no different then any other players that signed contracts a few ago. Got too old and declined before their contracts did. They will fade off with their contracts next season.

Tanev/ Gudbranson/ Tryamkin all will never be point producing D in the league sadly. (guessing) Can't have all 3 on the right side and on the same team.

If JB wants to make a splash and change this team. 2 D should go at the draft for top picks. Buffalo is been looking for a top 4 D for a while. If they are drafting at 10, In the weaker draft.

Clearly by the signing of Zack MacEwen, JB is recognizing this team will need some toughness in some form even if it's a 4th line player.

Karaoke is a combination of people who shouldn't sing or drink
- VanHockeyGuy

Most of my friends are professionals and have done concerts . They started off simple but years of practice

Most of my friends are professionals and have done concerts . They started off simple but years of practice
- VANTEL

The ones in this town we call the Traveling Willnots

Future HHOF
- VANTEL

I wouldn't trade Goldobin for Matthews.

You're "boy" is ranked 57 in NA. Maybe if Columbus is giving Van their second.

Jagr is also 10 years old and has been taking short term contracts for years. Sedin's are really no different then any other players that signed contracts a few ago. Got too old and declined before their contracts did. They will fade off with their contracts next season.

Tanev/ Gudbranson/ Tryamkin all will never be point producing D in the league sadly. (guessing) Can't have all 3 on the right side and on the same team.

If JB wants to make a splash and change this team. 2 D should go at the draft for top picks. Buffalo is been looking for a top 4 D for a while. If they are drafting at 10, In the weaker draft.

Clearly by the signing of Zack MacEwen, JB is recognizing this team will need some toughness in some form even if it's a 4th line player.
- manvanfan

I comfortable with however JB picks, it looks like he's in his element now. Uncover that illusive center the team needs for rebuild depth.

I have a poll question for married guys here.

A) My wife hates me.
B) My wife loves me.
C) A and B
- Scooby_Doo

C

The ones in this town we call the Traveling Willnots
- VanHockeyGuy

This video is of my son (real life ) , He came home pissed one night and created this song and recorded it drunk . He did a few track over tracks but he did it all drunk.

https://myspace.com/eljay...-cowboy-26989593-26790778

I comfortable with however JB picks, it looks like he's in his element now. Uncover that illusive center the team needs for rebuild depth.
- VanHockeyGuy

I am also with that. He does seem to like to draft the meat and potatoes type players though. Even though we have yet to see most of his draft picks.

This video is of my son (real life ) , He came home pissed one night and created this song and recorded it drunk . He did a few track over tracks but he did it all drunk.

https://myspace.com/eljay...-cowboy-26989593-26790778
- VANTEL

Well done!

Well done!
- VanHockeyGuy

Most of my friends get better the more they drink

I am also with that. He does seem to like to draft the meat and potatoes type players though. Even though we have yet to see most of his draft picks.
- manvanfan

Guys like me thought PLD was the answer to our problems. People say we blew it on Tkachuk when we took OJ, Virtanen is a washed up 20 year old. Time will tell, while he keeps on stocking the shelves. Something his predecessors never did.

Guys like me thought PLD was the answer to our problems. People say we blew it on Tkachuk when we took OJ, Virtanen is a washed up 20 year old. Time will tell, while he keeps on stocking the shelves. Something his predecessors never did.
- VanHockeyGuy

Virtanen hasn't done anything yet but Tryamkin came out from nowhere. Can't win them all.

Oilers drafted the top pick and took Slackinov

Guys like me thought PLD was the answer to our problems. People say we blew it on Tkachuk when we took OJ, Virtanen is a washed up 20 year old. Time will tell, while he keeps on stocking the shelves. Something his predecessors never did.
- VanHockeyGuy

Don't watch the youtube highlights from last page I posted. They don't look good for Virtanen. He has a lot of maturing to do. I'm one for giving time to players, all players no matter where they are drafted but gezzz it's ugly.
The draft is usually about the future and not the present so the OJ, Tkachuk thing will rage on till someone gets closer to the cup.

Virtanen hasn't done anything yet but Tryamkin came out from nowhere. Can't win them all.

Oilers drafted the top pick and took Slackinov
- VANTEL

Who know what his ceiling is? A few strides when he gets a chance and he's at the other end of the ice Refine that shot of his and you have something special. Once he gets more confidence it would be great so see a little bit of a nasty side of him.

Anybody know how we go back in old blogs from say 2 years ago?

Who know what his ceiling is? A few strides when he gets a chance and he's at the other end of the ice Refine that shot of his and you have something special. Once he gets more confidence it would be great so see a little bit of a nasty side of him.
- VanHockeyGuy

Most of us fans forget how young these guys are . Bo is in his third year of what will be maybe a 15 year career . Hutton in his second and Tree in his first.

We have a lot to look forward to despite all the chicken littles

Thank you Carol.

Game last night went as expected. Just happy the "Transition" phase is finally underway.
- vancity787

We're transitioning....



This will not be pretty.

Anybody know how we go back in old blogs from say 2 years ago?
- thundachunk

No but why in the world would you want to?

IF YOU EVER HAD ANY SORT OF HOPE THAT JAKE WOULD TURN INTO AN NHL PLAYER.

Probably shouldn't watch these highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiR-_buLXWQ


- manvanfan

Jesus that is hard to watch.
His lack of hockey sense/I.Q is insane.
He needs to be demoted to the ECHL to 'gain some confidence'.

Now you guys know me. I'm all for slow and steady progress. Been touting that poop for years now. But what I'm seeing now, it ain't progress. Ha! Progress? We ain't (frank)ing talking progress here.

We are standing at an edge of a cliff. An edge that is like really super unstable. And who's going to pull us back? Jim and Trevor? "Sorry, we can't help you right now we're too busy with our heads up our asses looking for a clue."

Yeah, thanks for the help you (frank)s.

Benning's an idiot. Plain and simple. And I'm not just taking about his eductation. I'm talking all-around dim. Certified dumb.

Who trades a 1st line scorer for a "?". In fact, he traded the only two roster players that found some success playing with the twins. You see, it takes a special kind of mind to divine yourself into the Sedin’s cosmic wizardry. (frank) man, it's something that you and I can't grasp! There might be only 6 people in the world that can. And we had them!

Edge crumbling.

Let me divert for a second. Here's a question. What does this franchise do on a consistent basis? Oh nothing, just trade away every single player the twins ever played well with. Klatt, Pyatt, Kesler (one of the most dominant Peepees ever), that black guy, and now Burrows and Hansen. Stick that in your conspiracy mug and drink it.

What the (frank) was I saying… Oh yeah...

As others have pointed out quite eloquently, these players have like crazy high intangibles. No need to elaborate.

So what do we do now? What does our coach do now? What do the players do now when the heart has been ripped out from this team! That's one of the team's two (sometimes three) assistants to the captain for Christ sake! I'm pretty sure that's really important even though I've never really played a professional team sport. Regardless, I'm pissed.

And now they don't have an assistant captain. When asked who gets to wear the "A" now? Dim Jim's answer (because the coach is in hospital recovering from a narcoleptic seizure) "we'll just move the "A" around and see what sticks..."

Are you (frank)ing kidding me. More of the same crap from this fascist, misogynous, right wing, dictatorship they call "management". Misdirection, confusion, and indecision is the strategy here.

I don't understand why there is such disconnect between the two leadership groups? I really feel for Willie. He's got his plan laid out to get our team into the playoffs, positions are filled, got his difference makers where they need to be. Willie's got a totally solid grasp on his roster and then WHOOSH! The carpet gets pulled from under him. No clue. No warning. Everyone was on board for the final push to the playoffs and then a 180. WTF?

Got to give poor Willie a chance. Just get us to the damn playoffs and with Willie's backcountry smarts and an amazingly balanced roster, who knows what could happen. All you haters have to do is look at LA Kings a few years back. Hell, the comparisons between our team and that team are pretty scary.

Anyway, I don't know what is going on anymore but I feel comfortable sharing my feelings of confusion and emptiness with you guys. Sometimes I feel like I'm falling. Just falling...
- bloatedmosquito